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Late Night Links – Sunday May 8th, 2016
Itās late night links time again! Believe it or not, weāre still playing catchup from the weeks I took a hiatus. We should be good after today though, so letās get this thing going.
- Trying to Drive Your Car Off a Tow Truck is as Stupid as it Sounds
- Virtual Desktop for VR is a Glimpse at a Future Without Monitors
This actually looks really cool. I want to try it. - Donāt Blink or You Might Miss the Fastest Formula 1 Pit Stop Crew at Work
- New Rideshare Company Steps Up in Calgary
Iām listening… - British Man Successfully Gets Dominos Delivered to His Moving Train
- Make a Temperature Indicator for You Faucet with Thermochromatic Pigment
Alright then, maybe I will. - Sonyās Google Cast Speakers are Ready to Put Music in Any Room
- ATB Creates New Support for Alberta Entrepreneurs
- Passenger Mistakes Math Equations forĀ āTerrorist Code,ā Gets Economics Professor Escorted Off Flight
And just like that, weāre not only done but also up to date! Until next time then, internet.
Late Night Links – Sunday May 1st, 2016
Itās a beautiful start to May here in #YYC, and Iām sitting on my deck writing this post while Flo is out doing Flo things. Sheāll be back before long, so letās get going and get this done.
- Windows 10 Will Bring Your Android Phone Notifications to Your PC
Thatās great and all, but I already have them through pushbullet. - Koh Lipe // The Maldives of Thailand
- Super Trivia About Super Troopers
Now I kind of want to go back inside and watch this. - High River RCMP Chase Allegedly Impaired, Machete Wielding Suspect Through Farmland
- WhatsApp Completes End-to-End Encryption Rollout
- Four Lawn Mowing Tips for Keeping a Lush Lawn Without Wasting Water
My lawn has definite tinge of brown to it right now… - Game Boy Mod Plays Nearly Any Classic Nintendo Game
- Sick Beat ft. Dying Car Alarm
- The First Fan to Try the $100,000 Goal Promotion Makes it Look Easy
- Capān Crunch Chicken Strips
Oh…? - That Emoji Does Not Mean What You Think it Means
- Letās Encrypt Free HTTPS Certification Push Exits Beta
- Get You
- Wacoās Finest
- If You Work More Than 50 Hours a Week, Youāre Probably Not Getting More Done
I was definitely pushing more than that for a while there. Back to normal now, though.
…and weāre done for another week! Until next week then folks, same time, same place.
Late Night Links – Sunday April 24th, 2016
Itās the long awaited return of late night links! With things getting especially busy recently #lnl really fell by the wayside, but weāre back! Letās dive in.
- Nikonās A900 is the First Coolpix Point-and-Shoot with 4K
I am looking for a good point-and-shoot camera… - Microsoft App Logs You Into Windows 10 Using Your Phone
- Kevin Spacey Crashed a Kevin Spacey Themed Night at a Florida Panthers Game
- Guy Solves Three Rubikās Cubes in Under 20 Seconds, While Juggling Them
- XKCD #1659: Tire Swing
- Poorly Drawn Lines: The Package
- 14 Apps Every Modern Gentleman Should Have on His Phone
- Chinaās Xiaomi Unveils a $150 Smartphone-Controlled Rice Cooker
I do want a new small rice cooker, but I was really looking more in the $15 range. - Mix Italian Dressing with Barbecue Sauce for the Perfect Marinade for Any Meat
Really? - Cleartext Limits Your Writing to the 1,000 Most Common Words in English
- Ballsy Brit Gets a Photo with His Planeās Hijacker
- FÅkasu is a Simple Timer Based on the Ideal 52/17 Productivity Schedule
I am not familiar with this 52/17 productivity schedule, but this kind of thing interests me, so I think Iām going to learn more.
And weāre done! Or rather weāre not, because Iāve built up quite a backlog of this stuff. But thatās enough for now.
Until next week then!
There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.
Late Night Links – Sunday March 20th, 2016
Itās the first day of spring today! Thatās not really relevant though, so letās just get on with some late night links and not dwell on it.
- Build a Raspberry Pi-Powered DIY Amazon Echo
Talking of Raspberry Pi projects, thereās also this to consider. - Cyanide & Happiness #4230: My Body, My Choice
- This Dog Learned to Drive a Truck, but Not Very Well
- āThe Most Dangerous Writing Appā Destroys Your Progress if You Stop Typing
- This Website Will Show You What Itās Like to Have Dyslexia
This was actually really interesting. - Teens React to Windows 95
I distinctly remember Windows 95 being released, so finding out it was before these people were born was somewhat alarming. - The Perils of Parallel Parking
Happily, our car parks itself. - A Woman Crashed Into a Tree and Proceeded to Just Drive Around With It Stuck in the Hood of Her Car
- The Research
- Let It Go…
- The Four-Cylinder Macan Will Be the Cheapest Porsche You Can Buy
Flo and I looked at one of these the other weekend at the auto show. Possible contender for her next car, but I donāt know if a four cylinder one will cut it. - The Best Rice Cooker
We do need a new small one. - Plan Launches a Better Calendar for Busy People
Iām always on the lookout for a better calendar. - ProtonMailās Encrypted Email is Now Available to All
- Man Hijacks Toronto Bus at Knifepoint, Forces Driver to Take Him to Tims
#Canada - Proof of Evolution That You Can Find on Your Body
And thatās it! Not only are we done for today, weāre also finally all caught up after my hiatus a while back. Until next week, then, Internet. Same time, same place.
Late Night Links – Sunday March 13th, 2016
Thereās still a lot of catching up to do from all the time off I took from late night links. Letās get through another bunch then, shall we?
- A Produced is Tweeting Descriptions of Women from Movie Scripts, and itās Hilariously Awful
- A 12v USB Charger Probably Wonāt Ever Kill Your Carās Battery
Flo and I have talked about this. - Impress Your Party Guests with Cocktails Served Inside Orbs of Ice
Necessary. - Build This DIY, Programmable Macro Keypad for Less Than $30
- Getting Ready for HTTP/2: A Guide for Web Designers and Developers
- What Actually Happens When You Sign Up for One of ThoseĀ āWork From Homeā Scams
Iāve often been curious. - Microsoft, Samsung and Intel Form Smart Home Alliance
I need a future-proof standard I can be confident in, then Iāll buy in! So this is probably a good thing. - Hands On With Eero, Or A Noobās Guide to Building an At-Home Wireless Mesh Network
- The Best Robot Vacuum
- Apple Changed Its Siteās Code so the WordĀ āclickā Doesnāt Look Like…
- Ken M is an Internet Trolling Savant
- Hamsters
- No, Youāre Not Really Working for Free on Leap Day
- John Oliver Wants Donald Trump to Appreciate His Heritage and Make Donald Drumpf Again
A longer watch, but worth it. - The Pros and Cons of Three Different Types of Furniture Paint
This oneās for you, Flo - How the Raspberry Pi 3 Benchmarks Against Older Models
OK, thatāll do for today. More coming your way next week!*
* Weather permitting
Being Smarter by Not Thinking
Thereās a popular
myth that says we only use 10% of our brains.
Itās simply not true. Studies (including the source of all scientific truth: an episode of
MythBusters) have proven that all areas of the brain have a function, and while
the percentage that weāre āusingā at any given time varies by task it can
certainly exceed 10%.
One thing that seems very obvious to me without needing to
cite a study about it, however, is that I certainly have unused brain capacity,
and it can do amazing things when you leave it to its own devices.
As an example of what Iām talking about, I refer you to a
link I posted on this very blog some time ago: Why
Great Ideas Always Come in the Shower (and How to Harness Them).
In the brief commentary I added, I mentioned that never in
my life have I had a good idea in a meeting. Great ideas come to me while Iām
doing other things. Specifically, other things that do not take much in the way
of thought and offer little in the way of distraction: things where my brain
gets left to itās own devices and has an opportunity to wander ā showering,
certainly, but also commuting, trying to get to sleep at the very end of the
day (infuriatingly), and when Iām at the gym.
Talking of the latter one, I havenāt been to the gym for
quite some time.
When we lived in our apartment there was a gym in the
building, and that was great. I could easily fit in a solid 45 minutes there at
lunch. Any spare 30 minute window in my schedule could be turned into 20
minutes on the stationary bike.
I want to go back, but now that weāve bought the house there
is obviously not an on-site gym. Thereās a gym at the office (20 minutes away)
and a Goodlife Fitness close by (10 minutes away) where Iād get a discounted
rate, but small though it is even that travel time is putting me off. I will
most likely join Goodlife, since I rarely go to the office these days and
installing a home gym just isnāt in the budget right now, but Iāve been missing
the ability to easily take 30 minutes and get some exercise, and Iām sad that
none of the solutions will offer me that. In the absence of a perfect solution,
I havenāt done anything at allā¦ until yesterday.
Since the weather here in Calgary is distinctly spring-like
these days, I went for a walk before I started my work day. I didnāt go far ā a
little less than 2km, according to the Google Fit data from my phone and watch
ā just down the road a bit and then back along the pathways that run through
our neighbourhood.
I liked it so much I did it again at lunch time, and then
for a third time this morning.
The physical benefits of this, though Iām sure not huge by any
means, are probably much needed at this point. Really though what I like about
it so much are the mental benefits. Iāve never been much of a morning person
and I would never consider going to the gym before work, but rolling out of bed
and attempting to be productive more or less immediately is not a recipe for
success either. Feeling like my day has already started by the time I sit down
to get some work done definitely gives me a mental boost that Iāve been able to
capitalize on. More significantly though, thereās a lot to be said for the kind
of problem solving that can only come from not thinking about something too
much and letting my subconscious guide me in ways that Iād never have come up
with if I were sitting at my desk consciously trying to focus on something.
Itās amazing what you can do when youāre not trying to do
anything.